VMWare EsXi 5.1.0 disk space

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• ESXi 5 - increase the disk space

  Hello

  
  Info:

  Size of the disk hard server: 4 TB

  What are the limits on the increase in size of virtual machine disk space Windows Server? For example, if C: win2k8 is 80 GB, can I increase to say a maximum of 4000 GB (eg. only 1 VM on the host)?

  I get a new server and I would like to give the VMs small readers and increase disk space needed in the future, if necessary. How will I know how much space the augmentable drive by?

  If I start with young readers, does this mean that I won't be able to increase the disk space, as well as virtual machines with more readers?

  Thank you

  Sorry, my bad. The size of the virtual disk does not depend on the HW version, it's just 5.5 ESXi and VMFS5.

  In any case, some words of clarification:

  • You can create virtual disks with up to 16 TB, in c# Client
  • Large virtual disks > 2 TB-512Bytes (with up to 62 to 64 to no) are not officially supported in c# Client, even if this can work for drives <=16TB (see=""> vSphere 5.5 storage improvements part 1: 62 TB VMDK)
  • Note: You cannot manage VMs with HW version 10 in the c# Client.

  André

• ESXi Datastore out of disk space

  We have a problem with a host, saying that it is running out of disk space.  We have three servers that are running on it and cannot start one because we get an error there is not enough disk space.  We took a virtual disk from one of the servers for free space, but it seems not to have worked.  The data store shows that there is no available disk space.

  How can I get the host to see the virtual disk from one of the guest has been removed?

  Thank you

  Unless you have selected "remove disc" when you are prompted, the disk may have only been removed from the configuration of the machine virtual but not deleted. You can open the browser data store and navigate to the folder of the virtual machine if you want to remove the disc manually.

  Warning: There is no way to return. Deleted is deleted. So be very careful with that.

  What is the reason for the complete data store? There may be snapshots on some virtual machines that could be consolidated rather than remove anything!

  What version/version of ESX (i) are you running?

  André

• Dynamic hard disk space allocation

  Hello

  Is it possible to ESXi to dynamically allocate disk space as virtual machine he needs. I'm under ESXi 5.1.

  Thank you very much

  Welcome to the community,

  You can configure the virtual disks to the virtual machine as thin provisioned, which allocates additional space if necessary. However, remember that thin configured disks descended not automatically if the data in the guest operating system are deleted. Make sure monitor also that you the use of the data store if you are going to fund it, i.e. to provide more disk space for virtual machines that physically available.

  André

• VMware ESXi 4.1.0 and snapshot problem - no disk space

  Hi all

  We now have a big problem with our free space on the disk. We are using VMware vSphere (vSphere Client ver 4.1.0 and VMware ESXi ver 4.1.0):

  Our vm has 2 HDD (500 GB, 1 TB). Now we have only 20 GB of free disk 1 and several snapshot files. To remove the snapshot, we need more than 20 GB of free space (corect?). What we need to do more free space? We can move snapshot files from the first disk to the second disk?

  

  

  Thanks for any help

  concerning

  Dragan

  First of all, you can redirect your new snapshot on another store/disk as explained in this article "http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1002929".

  Secondo, you can delete snapshot older and smaller but not all together as explained in this article by Duncan Epping "http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/01/07/delete-all-snapshots/."

  Alex

• ESXi 4.0 initial installation 208167 used 80G of hard disk space

  Hello

  I'll put up an old HP Proliant DL360 G5 server with two hard drives, managed by the HP Smart Array P400i controller 146SAS.  With RAID 1 + 0, the LogicalDisk is about 136G.  After you have installed the server ESXi 4.0, vSphere client reported that 51G is available for virtual machines.   See attached snapshot.  Back in 2009, on a new DL360 G6 server, I used the same software to ESXi 4.0 and installing used only 2 GB of space.  Which could use the 80G of hard disk space? 

  I noticed a difference in how vSphere client reported the DTX200:

  The DL360 G5, the customer reported the storage as "local disk VMWare..." »

  The DL360 G6, the customer reported the storage as "Home HP series SCSI Disk... »

  Any idea what happened to the 80G?  Thank you.

  -Jim

  If I understand you correctly, there is nothing on the data store yet (i.e. no VMs)? In this case, you can try to remove the data store and recreate to see if it reports the correct size after that.

  André

• ESXi disk space, vms stops

  Hello friends, please let me go throw a hand.
  I have a client who has a VMware ESXi 4.0 running on an IBM server, there a few daysago server has stopped working due to lack of disk space, so IT techniciansbecause the company has made several unnecessary shots. I'm here, delete thesnapshots and same VMDK and other invalid files, released 30 GB, but now the serverreturned to lose ground and has now only 12 MB of free disk space. How can thishappen? What makes a server loses a lot of disk space so quickly?
  Thus, virtual machines are stopped, the server crashed Vmware everything I do, how free space without losing data?

  
  Thank you

  
  Edit by continuum

  all attachments have been removed by OP, so if you read this post keep in mind that the measures used to solve the problem is more sensible.
  If you are having similar problems, that you can't learn from this post

  Ulli

  in order to consolidate desktop you need

  RDS-FS_1 - 000001.vmdk
  RDS-FS_1 - 000002.vmdk
  RDS-FS_1 - 000003.vmdk
  RDS-FS_1 - 000004.vmdk
  RDS - FS_1.vmdk
  RDS-FS_1-000001 - delta.vmdk
  RDS-FS_1-000002 - delta.vmdk
  RDS-FS_1-000003 - delta.vmdk
  RDS-FS_1-000004 - delta.vmdk
  RDS-FS_1 - flat hard

  all in a directory on your host workstation.
  Create the new virtual machine, then adds RDS-FS_1 - 000004.vmdk as an existing drive.
  Also add another disk préallouée one piece with the same nominal size.
  Start your favorite LiveCD of VM and clone the disc to disc

  or use vmware-vdiskmanager and run
  VMware-vdiskmanager - r RDS-FS_1 - 000004.vmdk - t 4 consolidated.vmdk

  the first procedure maybe more fast but needs more manual work.

  Test the vmdk again before you delete the originals on the ESXi and download the new

• Disk space on ESXi

  Hey

  I'm doing something wrong?

  I used to use VMware Server1, now I changed my ESXi. On WMWare Server1, it was possible to have a flexible space on my HD, which means that it took me 50GB on my HD, and if I don't use 20 GB, it will use (put) only 20 and not to keep all 50 GB in reserve...

  Is there therefore no possiblilty to use on my flexible hard disk space as I could do with Server1?

  In this thread , you will find the answer

• OpenManage for VMWare ESXi has no possibility of tasks of virtual disk

  OMSA v 7.1 and 7.2 for Windows (and earlier versions) allow the user to perform many tasks on virtual disks, including reconfiguring - expand a RAID array with a new drive.

  This is not true for managing open for VMWare ESXi - although you can monitor the status of the RAID and disks with the browser of the OMSA interface type, you cannot perform tasks - can not even make a high beam Flash.

  It is a huge problem, because the PERC controllers (H700 and H800, for example) don't allow you to develop virtual using hard drives not Dell disks when you try this during startup in the bios.  (These controllers only allows you to create new virtual disks using drives not Dell).

  This test was conducted using the latest firmware (12.10.4 - 0001 A10) and drivers for the H700 and H800 and multi-server r610 ESXi 5.1.

  Other people with VMWare have been affected by the present?  The only solution is to have two player networks connected to the computer, and create a simple Windows with OMSA, boot in Windows Server to expand the table using OMSA for Windows.

  I would be interested in the comments of others, including those of Dell.  We spent hours on the phone with Dell; This seems to be the only solution.  (Yes, Dell released a firmware version last year that has ceased blocking non Dell readers, but it only works for the creation of a new virtual disk, do not expanding one existing).

  Yes.  It came through a discussion in the Dell | Servers | Discussion of the RAID community.

  en.Community.Dell.com/.../20263442.aspx

  There is a CD bootable linux called OMSA Live that you download from PowerEdge (linux OS) systems management.

  This OMSA PERC H700 and H800 control and allows you to do everything.  When you reconfigure the RAID and the PERC card starts the reconstruction, although it seems risky, you can restart under VMware and the reconstruction of the RAID continues on.  And you can analyze with OMSA for VMware.

• VMWare Esxi 5.5 Core dump to disk

  Good afternoon!

  I am facing a problem in VMware esxi free 5.5.

  The server is crashing and showed a purple screen with the message "core dump to disk. Site 1 of 1... ».

  I searched on the problem but have not found a solution.

  We are the migration from VMware to XenServer.

  In my environment, I have a San with Equallogic PS4100.

  Can someone tell me what could happen?

  Image attached.

  Thank you.

  It seems that you are affected by this problem:

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/2059053

  https://communities.VMware.com/message/2301745

  Unfortunately there is no patch for ESXi 5.5 still. The solution is to replace the vNIC e1000 in virtual machines with one another as the vmxnet3 vNIC.

• export of ESXi 4.1 in the OVF - disk space?

  Hello

  I want to do an export of several machines. But I worry about disk space that will be the local storage.

  If I have a virtual disk configured in VMWare as 50 GB it will export the flat pile or leaving it. Lets say I am only using

  1 GB under windows for example is it export only the space used on the disk (1 GB) or will I get a 50 GB ovf file?

  Also what will happen to linux VM?

  Thank you

  Ward

  Hello

  Take a look at this pdf

  http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=vmware%20export%20to%20ovf%20needed%20disk%20space&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vmware.com%2Fsupport%2Fdeveloper%2Fovf%2Fovf20%2Fovftool_201_userguide.pdf&ei=f1sTUYqyAaGN4AT_1IHQAw&usg=AFQjCNEUc7UmxZGg4omWccFtRqXDcHdljg

  Page 10

  -What are you looking for?

  Frank

• VMWare disk space problems

  I just inherited a VMWare system at work.  Initial inspection of the system, I know that it is running vsphere 4 Enterprise Plus.  Every day, I noticed that the space on the system seems to diminish gradually.  The question that I'm running into is that no matter how much I clean data warehouses, I'm not reclaim any disk space.  I have removed a couple of virtual machines and also cleaned up some ISOs from the data store, but I see about the same amount of disk space available.  I would like for this clean before I have more problems. I checked the current VMs aren't thin clients, so I don't know where the space is endangered to...

  The timestamp in the description (11/05/2012), you can see that there is a problem with vRanger connection remove the snapshot after the backup (you can check the files of vRanger connection newspapers to find errors, if you want to), in any case, I am sure that this snapshot is the result of an unexpected error during the backup and must be deleted manually.

  André

• Datastore on ESXi 4.1 disk space monitoring

  Hi all

  I use HP SiteScope to monitor our data warehouses.  I use a simple script monitor to bounce back against our servers ESX 4.0 who runs the command of vdf to return the size used, available and percentage used.  When I call the script I pass data with her store name.  This is the content of the script.

  sudo/usr/sbin/vdf /vmfs/volumes/$1

  This returns the following:

  1 k-blocks used available use % mounted on file system

  / vmfs/volumes/4c14635a-8d723b1c-031c-0844324ssa05f3

  419168256 117296128 301872128/vmfs/volumes/MY_DATASTORE 27%

  Then, I am able to use these measures to make reports and alerts if a certain data store is full.  This is a Lab Manager environment development so sometimes people accidentally create too many virtual machines and their warehouses of data to run out of disk space.  Where the reason why we need oversight from a perspective of data store.

  Now enter ESXi 4.1.  The command vdf no longer accepts the name of store data as an additional argument.  I tried a number of different things but do not seem to find the right solution.

  So basically I just need the same measures and be able to run for each of my stores of data.  Does anyone know a different way to this collection through the command line?

  Thanks in advance.

  Billy

  with ls - lh mutual data store name, you can

  and you can see with df h size.

  but I believe that the best solutions is witch with VMA command line.

• Change the HARD disk in VMWare ESXi 3 Server

  Hi all

  I'm new in the Comunnity. I have the following problem:

  I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 III with six 7.2 K rpm HDs in RAID 5 running VMWare ESX 3i in an internal USB unit. In this server, I have a virtual machine running a mail server. I have problems of performance of disks in servers and we will change the discs on 15 K RPM drive and change the RAID 10 RAID level. I activated the SSH in VMWare ESXi and my question is: is it possible to copy the virtual machine using Winscp or other method forders, rebuilt my RAID, and then copy these files to VMWare again?

  I'would want to know your suggestions on this matter.

  Thank you very much and best regards,

  Amedina

  You may need to use "add to inventory" since the UUID will be different on the store of data on disks. If we then open the data store with and navigate to the virtual machine. Right click and Add. You answer that you move them.

• Is there anyway around this limitation? -&gt; Clustering on disks, iSCSI (VMware ESXi)

  This is in the article (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r40_u1/vsp_40_u1_mscs.pdf): Setup for Microsoft Cluster Service and Failover Clustering

  Environments and the following features are not taken in charge for the setup of MSCS in this version of vSphere:

  • Clustering on iSCSI and NFS FCoE disks.

  Is this in any way about this?

  I would like to create a simple 2-node, Windows 2008 active/passive cluster in VMware ESXi using my FAS2020 iSCSI solution.

  Thanks for your time in advance!

  As I said earlier. Treat your virtual machines and physical and use the iSCSI initiator in the operating system.